Tuesday, 10 September 2013

[Music Video] Miley Cyrus "Wrecking Ball"

The follow-up to Miley Cyrus's publicity generating single We Can't Stop has dropped! Thankfully new song Wrecking Ball finds the singer changing gear and delivering a tune with a little more depth than the song that preceded it.

The new song also gives Miley a chance to show everyone that she possesses a set of unique and capable pipes (I can't wait to hear her sing this live). I just wish she hadn't gone for shock value with the nudity in the video because I think the faux-scandal it's probably going to generate might overshadow the song itself.

But whatever, the Dr. Luke and Cirkut produced song is a corker and that's good enough for moi!

I really like this song and I agree her voice is on point here too, again she doesn't really get the credit she is due for her talents, all this nonsense recently with the VMA's will not help solve this! Good work on the song and production for sure.

I also agree the video seems unecessary, she really could have made something tasteful and current with the concept of the song in mind, the nakedness does nothing for me, but then hey how unsurprising is that... >_<

It just doesn't make sense to me...I'm sorta angry because the song is actually pretty nice and I was expecting more from the video. Why was she licking the sledgehammer again? Can we do without and sexual subliminal messages for once, please Miley!

Well I'd like to imagine that the wrecking ball is a metaphor for her love and how much of a destructive force it is, but still how attached she is to is and how vulnerable (naked) it makes her feel. I'd like to imagine the hammer is also another metaphor for destructive love, yet she's still so obsessed with it (basically blowing the hammer).

But I mean she probably just went on set and said "okay if I do this people will think I'm sexy and edgy, but still artistic. Let's do it." Still I think it's a really nice video overall, I think she looked beautiful and the shots were very clean and smooth, and I love the song also, I was hooked by the first listen.

I think they were in such a hurry to film the "dressed " part, she forgot to put on her pants.Which is a real shame because I could live with the nude part as symbolic for the vulnerability had it been offset with an fully dressed ( just a pair of jeans , even shorts, would have sufficed Miley!) image.Other than that I liked the video and I really like the vocals on this pretty decent song.

words from co-writer herself Mozella music on her twitter "I'm just going to through it out there. Maybe nudity﻿ is the representation of feeling emotionally stripped and vulnerable. And maybe she is kissing the sledgehammer because we all secretly love the pain."what a great song and a great video if it weren't for the 'secretly loving the pain" i would probably say the video ruined the song. then again im quite sure that if it was Rihanna licking the sledgehammer no one would even care and might actually love that part. The girl is trying to grow up, i wish critics would cut her some slack

Good song. To me the video could have been better though. I hate Miley but I also hate the shut shamming she's getting, totally undeserved. I actually think the video was overall tasteful. Nudity is not all about sexuality but also represents vulnerability, which was relevant to the song. So fuck all the people calling her a slut.

I think it's an OK song with some good moments (like the pre-chorus for example), but overall, it's OK. I didn't watch the video and not planning to watch to. I don't want it to ruin the song for me or make me lose more respect for her. So I'll leave it at that.

They mean people come and check out the song and might turn out they like it. As in this case seems to be the over riding factor...people like the song.And that means they might buy it. Because let's face it..mp3 is what brings in the money. Videos are just basically advertisement for a song

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Channeling your inner witch again sweetie? Little advice. If you are going to call people dumb, at least learn how to spell the word first.And please .... Do refuse yourself these idiotic comments you post. Nobody will miss them. :-)

The bigger "shocker" seems to be though the sledgehammer licking.I continue to be amazed at a people thinking sex is obscene but killing dirt poor villagers on the other side of the world with machines operated from New mexico or some such doesn't strike them as obscene enough to raise their voices en masse???

I think vocally she was convincing but just the crying bit was not convincing acting.But the voice definitely is. Which is why I hope when she gets this nonsense out of her system she will move into a music more voice and lyric driven because her voice really suits songs about life IMO

Oh NO! I was referring to a certain singer who's name I refuse to utter but it starts with an R.Why for Pete sake would I call you trashy??? Even if I didn't like you, and I do, there still be no reason to use that particular description for you at all. Quite the opposite I would say judging from your comments. :-)

No you sorry sod. Didn't you get that yet? I really wish Mariah did not sound like this. But as this actual recording of her voice shows...she does sound like this todayhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=votwb5-ZmkA

I think you are thinking of your mother when it comes to making sex tapes Luis.In the meantime this is how Mariah actually sounds these daysDeal with it sugah!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=votwb5-ZmkA

OMG sorry I misunderestood your comment!! When you said "unlike one whose name I won't mention" I thought you were saying that that "one" does think she is trashy, instead of that "one" being trashy himself. Excuse me it was like 1 AM when I read it so my mind wasn't on its fullest XD

Well, if the media doesn't promote something, the public is too stupid and uneducated to consider it important. "Bug splats" - the bombing of innocent Pakistanis remotely from the US - has had hardly any media attention and Obama (or Obomber, as I call him) didn't even admit it was happening until fairly recently. On the other hand, the media manufactured a faux-outrage against Miley Cyrus and have been talking about her non-stop since the VMA's (and quite a lot since the We Can't Stop video dropped). Her record company probably paid for this attention in order to make her famous and get her notoriety. And it worked. People are talking about this completely irrelevant woman who can't twerk to save her life, while not understanding war crimes committed by their own country.

And don't call people "slut-shamers" just because they don't like her video. Nudity and/or overt sexuality for females is usually a replacement for actually doing something interesting. Then they act like this nudity actually means or represents something. Bullshit. It's an excuse to draw in viewers by offering them faux controversy and female flesh to ogle at. Nudity for female celebrities is inversely proportional to their level of talent. Look at Rihanna. Can't sing, can't dance and doesn't write her own songs. Look at Lady Gaga. Steals all "her" music and imagery from other artists. Both women naked or acting sexually very, very often. Now we can add Miley to this list of talentless, over-hyped professional female nudists.

Not the worst I've heard her sing. It's Like That is hardly a song for showing off ones vocals.

She performed Hero twice on the UK X Factor, once in 2007 and again in 2008 if I remember correctly. Both were atrocious, but the first one was much worse and for some suspicious reason I can't find it on youtube!

Both Miley and Gaga can sing though. I agree whether you like them is a matter of taste and I have many issues with gaga. I find her mediocre. But neither woman is musically "talentless".And yes..men feel just as vulnerable when in the nude

LOL I wouldn't know how it rates up against other poor performances. I sort of got told about these two but I don't really go looking for them.

I had just noticed , after seeing a number of recent performances, that really none these days are anywhere near actually "amazing" to non hard core fans ( which to me is one hall mark of an "amazing" performance...that it can blow the non fan's mind)

But you know..since it is sure to really annoy the foul mouthed manchild..I say post them if you find them. ;-)

I just find it funny that once a woman goes naked, she is not alouded to be talented anymore.

Gaga can sing, she can play instruments, and even if I dislike her, she did wrote some good music and had some pretty interesting lyrics before trying to be the savior of humanity.

About Miley... Do you know the girl actually got a nomination for a Golden Globe for a song she wrote at 15? And she does have a good (and distinctive) voice, a strong stage presence and a even stronger sense of how to put emotion on her work through her voice.

Rihanna isn't the best of the singers nor the best of her dancers... IMO her strongest contribution to pop music is all visual (she hasn't had a bad video in years, and is IMO the pop singer who most consistently delivers good visual works nowadays), what IS a talent by itself, but she also can do some magic on studio... A lot of her hits would have never worked on anybody else's voice and interpretation.

While I don't think she's immensely talented, I think calling her talentless is a bit harsh. She's shown on more than one occasion that she's capable of delivering more-than-competent vocal performances, and she's not a terrible dancer either, surely that counts as talent of some sort Opie? :P

I don't know... I read once Jay-Z was pissed with some of her visual choices (like picking Chris Brown look-alikes to be her romantic pair on videos), considering Jay Z is the one in charge of her, this shows she does have an amount of imput on her releases. About the quality of the videos, she isn't taking the camera herself, but IMO knowing who to hire is one of the biggest talents someone on a career that require multiple professionals may have. And about her on studio, some of her songs have pretty interesting emotional deliveries... Something that is her of merit even if she is being directed, as she IS able to deliver it. She can't do the same live, but IMO this is where the fact she can't sing comes into focus.

Is Rihanna is amazingly talented? No, she isn't. Is she talented enough to make it possible taking the best of what her industrial-scale production alouds her? Yes, she for sure is... And a lot of people isn't.

I am still disagreeing. I am convinced she is entirely a product of other people's talents. And I do not consider the ability to sign your name under a contract and follow instructions a talent.Certainly I was of course talking about artistic talent. ;-)

yeah vocally she was convincing but then again i am really convinced with her crying, it felt to me that she is my friend and she came to me to tell about her bf and cried and eventually got naked LOL. it felt real. i think the plot/setup and the direction could have been better so that miley could really translate all of her feelings and we could understand it a little bit more. and i was disagreeing with what reinko said that she is a good actress, meryl must be laughing now LOL

Personally I don't feel I have any trouble understanding her feelings. I think they got translated very well. I just thought the crying bit felt unconvincing.

Reiko never said she is a good actress. She said that she had gotten the impression Miley is an actress and therefor expected her to be able to act and found her surprisingly lacking when it came to that.

Well I took her words to mean..she thought she was a professional actress but that this was in that case poor for a professional actress.Though that would indicate a certain level I don't think it indicates "good" perse. Could also mean adequate.

Usually, I think, if there is no adjective added... the presumption is to adequate rather than good.But ya know..I am no native English speaker myself. I could well be wrong.Guess only Reiko herself can clarify her thoughts. :-)